¹Charles Lemoyne, Baron de Longueuil, was Governor of Canada from February to July, 1752.

²Cambridge, Massachusetts.

³Spencer Phips was Acting Governor of Massachusetts in 1749-1753.

⁴The Governor of Canada.

⁵Now Charlestown, New Hampshire.

⁶For.

⁷Fort Massachusetts was near the site of the present town of Adams, Massachusetts.

⁸Robert Sanders was Mayor of Albany in 1750-1754.

⁹Skaneateles, N. Y.

¹⁰Old Saratoga now Schuylerville.

¹¹John Henry Lydius, who had built Fort Lydius to protect his settlement at the Falls of the Hudson. This fort was destroyed by the French and Indians in 1745 and ten years later the historic Fort Edward was erected on the same site.

¹²Hudson River

¹³Lake George.

¹⁴Lake Champlain.

¹⁵Isle La Motte.

¹⁶I.e. north of.

¹⁷That part of the Richelieu or Sorel River above the Falls was at this time known as the Chambly River.

¹⁸Fort Saint John was at the head of the falls of the Richelieu River.

¹⁹Chebucto, now Halifax, Nova Scotia.

²⁰On.

²¹Now Halifax, Nova Scotia.

²²Louis, duc de Bourgogne, born September 13, 1751, eldest son of the Dauphin, eldest grandson of Louis XV., and heir to the throne. Louis XVI. was his younger brother.

²³In Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, Vol. X, pp. 252-254, is a copy of what purports to be minutes of conference of Stevens with the St. Francis Indians held this day - July 5, 1752 - in the presence of the Baron de Longueuil. For some of the captives named below, see C. Alice Baker, True Stories of New England Captives, pp. 335-348.

²⁴John Stark, the hero of the Battle of Bennington (August 16, 1777).

²⁵La Prairie.

²⁶Lake George.

²⁷Hinsdels Fort was near the west bank of the Connecticut River, a little above what is now the northern boundary of Massachusetts. A few miles N. by E. of it was Fort Dummer.

²⁸Winchester.

²⁹By the Act of Parliament here referred to eleven days were omitted in the record of time so that the day after September 2, 1752, was recorded as September 14, 1752.

³⁰There is a note in the margin as follows: Joseph Woods moved out of the fort this week.

Source: Travels in the American Colonies